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It's not just the level of competition, it's also Van Wilder not going well. Torstein Traeen is outclimbing him, for example.
My post was from before he got dropped. I didn't say he was good, quite the opposite. I'm questioning the team tactics to do all the work so early on the climb so that they 1/ effectively isolated him 2/ drove the pace when he wasn't good enough.He's simply not good enough today. Nothing to do with the team. I think you underestimate the level of competition here. This isn't Provence.
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